Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…Secular changes in the petroleum investment risk profile of major oil and gas hubs such as Russia, North Africa, West Africa, and the Middle East, limited access to acreage in the traditional producing areas, as well as the lack of new exploration successes outside the emerging provinces such as East Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, among others, have made Latin America an interesting place to re-visit. …”

Post-Asian financial crisis : banking reforms in Indonesia. by Yeo, Wee Poh.

“…In 1997, the Asian Financial Crisis hit Southeast and East Asia. Before the Asian Financial Crisis, there appeared few indications to warn of an impending catastrophic economic crisis in Indonesia. …”
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Modal tense: if and wish by Crowley, Paul

“…This paper is concerned with uses of certain morphemes, most notably the past, to represent meanings of distance from reality in modal expressions. …”
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UMPSA hosts RBTX Petrosains Challenge Eastern Zone 2024 by Naqiah, Puaad

“…PEKAN, 4 September 2024 - Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) hosted the RBTX Petrosains Challenge East Zone 2024 Competition at the Multipurpose Hall, UMPSA Pekan.…”
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International market entry. by Lim, Ley Yen., Soh, Stephanie Yan Ling., Tan, Yee Fei.

“…This Applied Research Project attempts to provide an insight on international expansion by Singapore businesses into South East Asia, specifically in the food service industry. …”
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Tourism in Thailand : factors behind its growth and resilience. by Nino Gruettke., Karthik Naga., Kartika Surja., Tan, Kiam Hong.

“…Tourism has been contributing an average of 6% to the GDP of Thailand in the last 20 years, one of the highest in South East Asia. In the same period, Thailand has been hit by financial crises, political upheavals, the SARS epidemic and a tsunami. …”
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Putting distance through cleansing : the mediating role of temporal distancing on the embodiment of moral purity by Nurul Mira Fatin Abdulkahar

“…More specifically, it is hypothesized that compared to individuals who do not clean their hands, those who do so after recalling a past immoral act would be more likely to temporally distance their present selves away from their past immoral selves so as to preserve favorable self-view, and hence are more likely to perceive their past moral transgressions as less severe than they would have normally believed. …”
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Empowering the employability of people with disability (PWD) through a skills intervention program by Omar, Muhd Khaizer, Mohd Puad, Mohd Hazwan, Yaakub, Mohamad, Muslim, Marlinah, Gui, Qing

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Contraceptive experience and factors associated with desire for postpartum family planning among pregnant women of the nkongsamba health district, Littoral Region, Cameroon by Ajong, AB, Yakum, MN, Mangala, FN, Bekolo, CE, Agbor, VN, Waffo, LM, Kenfack, B

“…This study aimed to evaluate past contraceptive experience and identify factors associated with the desire for postpartum family planning among women in late pregnancy. …”

Modeling downward counterfactual events : unrealized disasters and why they matter by Lin, Yolanda C., Jenkins, Susanna F., Chow, Jun Rui, Biass, Sébastien, Woo, Gordon, Lallemant, David

“…Disaster risk research’s reliance on past events has proved inadequate when it comes to extreme events. …”
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Empirical examination of economic linkages between Japan and rest of Asia. by Lim, Kok Soon., Yong, Kin Loong.

“…The overall objective of our paper is to use econometric analysis to empirically examine whether the Japanese economy does, in fact, have strong effects on other East Asian economies. Our results indicate that although Japanese economic performance does affect the performance of the region’s economies, the effects are weaker than might be expected. …”
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Xi's 'balance of interest solution': pre-empting an Asian NATO? by Suryanarayana, P. S.

“…He seems to suggest that the balance of national interests, not balance of power, is better at promoting a regional order for Asia or East Asia too.…”
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100 news @ wall projection by Sun, Zhongyinan

“…Then a word frequency analysis scheme was incorporated to interpret the top 100 keywords for the past hour and retrieve the related pictures and news stories for each keyword. …”
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Growing Uighur Militancy: Challenges for China by Nodirbek, Soliev

“…With the emergence of a new generation of Uighur militants drawn to conflict in the Middle East, there has been a shift in the threat landscape of China. …”
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North Korea Threat and Asian Markets: A Paradox? by Kumada, Mikio, Raska, Michael

“…How are East Asian stock exchanges reacting to North Korea’s sabre rattling? …”
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The issue of Arab Jews : manipulating a justified cause by Dorsey, James M.

“…A recent United Nations conference on the rights of Jews forced to flee Arab countries in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel focuses attention on a long overlooked consequence of the Middle East conflict. It also complicates the revival of Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations.…”
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Islam buddhism : preserving harmonious relations by Mohammad, Alami Musa

“…The creeping Muslim-Buddhist tension and the recent alliance forged among hard-line Buddhist nationalist movements in the "saffron crescent" countries of South and South-east Asia will undermine inter-religious relations in the world today. …”
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Wedge strategies, Japan-ASEAN cooperation, and the making of EAS: implications for Indo-Pacific institutionalization by Koga, Kei

“…Second, its geographical scope goes beyond Southeast Asia, focusing on East Asia—the combination of Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. …”
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Investigation of effects of supercavitation on flow by Yeo, Chee Siang

“…The simulation results obtained in this study are in good agreement with the past research papers. The disagreement of the data only occurred at 60° cavitator. …”
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ECERDC UMP Cucumber Fertigation Project empowers socioeconomy of Orang Asli by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…LIPIS, 9 April 2023 – The Cucumber Fertigation Project undertaken by the East Coast Economic Region Development Council (ECERDC) and UMP Advanced with Orang Asli of Kampung Pantos has achieved the goal of strengthening the socioeconomy of Orang Asli through encouraging outcomes.…”
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